World Famous Comics: Carl Colby Strokes of Genius: Franz Kline
Carl Colby Strokes of Genius: Franz Kline
Starring: Dustin Hoffman Directed By: Carl Colby Average Rating: Binding: VHS Tape Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Direct Cinema Limited Number of Items: 1 Release Date: December 01, 1982 Running Time: 29 minutes
Description: Hosted by Dustin Hoffman, the film portrays Franz Kline, best known for his vigorous, large-scale black and white abstractions. Kline (1910-1962) is one of the preeminent painters of our century. Rare personal interviews with Kline’s contemporaries explore the iconoclastic spirit of the artist. Beginning in his childhood in Pennsylvania’s coal towns to his bohemian lifestyle in the Greenwich Village of the 1930’s and 40’s, Franz Kline Remembered documents the struggles, innovations, and triumphs of one of the New York School’s most daring artists.This film is part of the STROKES OF GENIUS collection, a six-part series which examines the personal lives and artistic contributions of the principal leaders of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Franz Kline-Strokes of Genius Series This is one of the few vhs/dvd's available about Franz and his work so you have to be patient with it, the video starts off slow and seems to be more about the history of the Village and has DeKooning and his wife Elaine talking about the old days and what people did for fun and where people ate and drank. It's very choppy at first and doesn't get around to really showing pictures of Franz and his best known art until the half way point, and in a thirty minute video that's not much time to cover the complex ideas and forms he is famous for creating. However, if you can pick up a used copy then I would buy it at least to have it in my video library of great artists. I only wish it had been longer and more detailed.
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